Older railroad themed videos. The original video material often dismissed by the makers of today's high quality videos as "Railfan VHS" is not the greatest quality but the subject matter often redeems any deficiencies.
Thank you for this video of my favorite of the RS-series locos. She sure sounded sweet!
@LithiumSix6615 күн бұрын
If my 1970 dart would start as easy… i could sell it haha
@LithiumSix6615 күн бұрын
Amtrak did some horn theatrics for the foamers
@user-mr3ct1dm9p15 күн бұрын
Those C430's might not have been the best Alcos--- but they sure were great looking--- especially with those Hi-Ad trucks!!!
@jamesnichols218819 күн бұрын
Miss the 1804
@robertmoir569522 күн бұрын
Right around the time the desert wind and the pioneer were discontinued I hope The desert wind and the pioneer make a comeback
@jimkelton4052Ай бұрын
I understand from what I am reading that the WNYP & LAL are updating their fleet of locomotives and doing away with all their four axle Alco's including the 423.
@dennismaloney7241Ай бұрын
I followed the last D & H train just at the beginning of the consolidation. I remember laughing how they were having all kinds of problems getting the train over the road. Being a young (smart alec) engineer, I called the train dispatcher to get permission to couple up and shove them onto the siding to get them out of the way. He said: "Have some empathy for them, for they are the last D & H crew to operate a revenue train. They are probably the sons and grandsons of previous D & H conductors and engineers and are sad knowing that when they go 'outlaw' (over twelve hours), it will be a Conrail crew relieving them." Damn if they didn't ask to keep going after they went 'outlaw', the train dispatcher said: "You'll hold the siding until the jitney comes for you." I knew we were done also, I called the train dispatcher and reminded him we would be going outlaw within two hours also: "Call one, call two, " I said.
@user-xy1lp8jx2hАй бұрын
I love the sound of the FM opposed piston diesel engine. Years ago the New Haven RR had some FM H16-44 diesels. They had the trainmaster styling and were equipped with Hancock chime whistles .To me the sound of the FM engine is like an EMD on steroids.
@user-mr3ct1dm9pАй бұрын
The old Detroit&Mackinac had 4 like this--- they were ex- PRR units, that were rebuilt at Hornell. The paint scheme that was put on them was absolutely gorgeous! They served, and then became LSRC, same numbers--1280,181,281,381-D&M numbered their locos as date acquired. Sadly they are all gone, as LSRC phased out the Alcos, for EMD's. Nobody wanted them at the end. Sad endings for neat locos.
@williamoleschoolarendt7016Ай бұрын
Nothing like the old railroad muscle! These old engines had character unlike the ugly engines of today! Unfortunately just like cars and trucks they are all beginning to look alike and not for the good either! I love the old high hoods and the F units and especially the old U boats! My all time favorite locomotive is the U28s the B or C they were old school muscle for sure!
@joeystrains.9316Ай бұрын
It does sound good!
@USBCordАй бұрын
F I R S T
@gabrielgamer4458Ай бұрын
This took me a while to find on google
@RailpaxScottАй бұрын
Love this era of Amtrak!
@VictorianMaid99Ай бұрын
I love to see action like this. Thanks for posting something old.
@jaywinn481Ай бұрын
Thanks.. Everything I recorded is old.. I stopped recording 20 years ago when I was in my 60s... LOL
@SupaFly10579Ай бұрын
I love this locomotive. Reminds me of taking train from grand central years ago.
@ericschwartz3559Ай бұрын
0:35, waaaaaaaa, it’s 1016. Sold and cut up for scrap in April 2014 and by the evening of 04/22/2014, 1016 was gone, cab, trucks and everything, now she’s just a memory. Gone forever.
@user-mr3ct1dm9pАй бұрын
Sad to see that a once important yard and shops, were left to decline, and ended up in this condition. I don't think it suffering anymore. It's all gone now.
@dexecuter182 ай бұрын
That is the closest timed dutch drop I've ever seen. lol
@user-mr3ct1dm9p2 ай бұрын
Does NYSW still own/use this loco??
@jaywinn4812 ай бұрын
2012 formerly B&O 3800 went to the North Shore RR sometime around 2010-2014
@user-mr3ct1dm9p2 ай бұрын
@@jaywinn481Thanks for the reply! Question-- if you know the answer--- what is/was the largest loco that could work through the clearances in the brewery. Seems VERY tight with a GP38,or 40. ??
@jaywinn4812 ай бұрын
@@user-mr3ct1dm9p I don't know for sure but I believe that they used the Alco C430 #3000 a few times.. Check out Railroading Rambler as he probably has video..
@jamesnichols218819 күн бұрын
Nice catch thanks for sharing realy appreciate it did some street running on nygl years back
@EMDGP382 ай бұрын
Maybe the conductor called for Cooperstown on account of a bad order car, "Turned out to be 19", a pertinent issue for sure, would make sense.
@rebelroar782 ай бұрын
I remember seeing a Turboliner once in the late 90s. I thought it was this very futuristic train. Had no idea it was almost obsolete and built 20 years before I was born.
@user-mr3ct1dm9p2 ай бұрын
Always loved the C430's, as they seemed to look sleeker, more powerful. When NYSW had them painted in the yellow and black, AND with the silver trucks, they had to be in the top 3 of beautiful diesel locos ever on rails . The HI-AD trucks looked pretty neat, also. Only 4 are still active now, on WNY&P if I remember correct. ALSO--, a GBW unit is preserved at the National RR Museum in Green Bay. All the rest of the 16 built, are gone.
@markrocovich8303 ай бұрын
What is with the 5049, which is a GE product, riding on EMD FLEXICOIL trucks??
@jaywinn4813 ай бұрын
That is not a flexicoil but a standard FB-2 truck commonly used on the GE's. Cast by either Adirondack or Rockwell.
@ericschwartz20623 ай бұрын
Almost all of the MBB cars have proper 2x2 seating and MBB #517 and one other got 2x3 seats from a Bombardier in around 2009. They do fit. The Bombardier 600s and 1600s (including the 300s) all have 2x3 seating. Note: MBBs are using Coaches’ 750-781 and 900-932 same 2x2 style seats but in purple, the MBB have them in probably MassDOT blue. The 91’ era Kawasaki cab cars/coaches all have a three-plus-two seating configuration. The MBBs also have much bigger windows than those found on the other single-level cars.
@Yosemite-George-613 ай бұрын
Awesome! No bells or horns... just engine noise. Nice description too. Thanks a lot!
@ericschwartz20623 ай бұрын
The k cars seen in this video (700s and 1700s) are now 33 years old.😱 Railfans who are older remember when they were brand-new back in 1991.
@jimkelton40523 ай бұрын
Those locomotives along with the Alco Century units, which were already mostly phased out in 1990 were by far the best pulling unit, not the best riding, but they'd pull forever without stalling. Yes, I was partial to Alco's and GE's. Nice video. I must of missed that video previously. Thanks Jim
@ericschwartz20623 ай бұрын
5:40, Rest In Piece 1500!!! 😭
@ericschwartz20623 ай бұрын
0:48, Rest In Piece 1518!!! 😢
@ericschwartz20623 ай бұрын
5:35, what the heck was 1635 doing in the middle of the train set.
@ericschwartz20623 ай бұрын
5:48, back when 1616 was allowed to lead a train, now it and Nos. 1600-1615, 1617-1624 have their cab controls “Deactivated” and are used exclusively as blind coaches.
@user-mr3ct1dm9p4 ай бұрын
What is it about the clean,rounded Iines of the RS3, and most of Alcos locos, that are so eye pleasing?? Thanks for recording this-- these locos look great, as compared to the modern designs.
@user-mr3ct1dm9p4 ай бұрын
30 years later, and how much of these neat scenes are still there? D&H is gone, sadly, Guilford is gone-- thank God, and all those neat colorful locos are gone. NYSW has gotten smaller, and lost those neat Alco branch lines. Yes, once upon a time,we had it good, as railfans. Now, it's all gone.
@RailroadJourneys4 ай бұрын
I assume this is 1998. I don’t remember engines having ditch lights earlier
@NothingButTrains4 ай бұрын
Nice video Sir. New subscriber to your channel.
@dt61264 ай бұрын
My wife and I were just in Onionta visiting our son in college. Driving around we ended up at Fonda and Roundhouse rd. Saw the sign about the D&H roundhouse that once stood there, the largest ever built. Its amazing some of the history you find out about the towns in upstate NY.
@danielkielty47574 ай бұрын
Those F units are so amazing !!!
@thomasswanick42374 ай бұрын
Remember sitting in the Oneonta yard waiting for my father to get off when we only had one car. Sleeping in a station wagon when my father worked the extra board on school nights. Memories I will always have. Any relation to Marty, Ronnie and Maryann?
@steamgent45924 ай бұрын
Wow don’t know they put steam boat whistles on their 2-8-0s as well. There is a much high pitched D&H chime whistle I prefer that 2102 (302) carried along with one of these steam boat 3 chimes. This sounds a lot like 2716 with Bill Purdies IC whistle when she was in Southern Livery
@thomashunter33364 ай бұрын
Outstanding
@canucksfan20244 ай бұрын
We got one in town at the railway museum so cool!!
@SupaFly105795 ай бұрын
Do you know where i can find a detailed map of the area rails? Old and newer?
@SupaFly105795 ай бұрын
Schuyler Street looks much nicer with all the trees. Where exactly were they going? You can hear someone locking up their brakes at the crossing on Genesee.
@user-mr3ct1dm9p5 ай бұрын
Pics, and video from a much better time. R.I.P. WALTER.
@minutemanmac5 ай бұрын
Love seeing the PSNH Bow coal trains in these videos
@danielkielty47575 ай бұрын
Those old F units are glorious !!!
@stephenvanwoert24475 ай бұрын
The Good Old Days before the disgusting graffiti started.
@user-mr3ct1dm9p5 ай бұрын
WOW!!! 34 years have past, on what was a colorful,intersting,ALCO inclusive shortline. This track may still be in service, but the C430's are gone now. What a time it was,to see this! Rest in peace Walter Rich--- some of us have not forgotten you,and thanks!
@jaywinn4815 ай бұрын
3000 is a survivor she still exists working for the WNYP
@user-mr3ct1dm9p5 ай бұрын
@@jaywinn481 Yes--- don't they have all four, that are left??
@jaywinn4815 ай бұрын
They have 3000 operating and and 3006 condition unknown... 3002,3004 and 3008 were scrapped and cut up by the NYS&W
@user-mr3ct1dm9p5 ай бұрын
@@jaywinn481 Yes, I am aware that there were only 2 that survived from the 5, from NYSW, but don't they also have the 2 from MORRISTOWN&ERIE, as those were the only ones left. ??
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Thank you for this video of my favorite of the RS-series locos. She sure sounded sweet!
If my 1970 dart would start as easy… i could sell it haha
Amtrak did some horn theatrics for the foamers
Those C430's might not have been the best Alcos--- but they sure were great looking--- especially with those Hi-Ad trucks!!!
Miss the 1804
Right around the time the desert wind and the pioneer were discontinued I hope The desert wind and the pioneer make a comeback
I understand from what I am reading that the WNYP & LAL are updating their fleet of locomotives and doing away with all their four axle Alco's including the 423.
I followed the last D & H train just at the beginning of the consolidation. I remember laughing how they were having all kinds of problems getting the train over the road. Being a young (smart alec) engineer, I called the train dispatcher to get permission to couple up and shove them onto the siding to get them out of the way. He said: "Have some empathy for them, for they are the last D & H crew to operate a revenue train. They are probably the sons and grandsons of previous D & H conductors and engineers and are sad knowing that when they go 'outlaw' (over twelve hours), it will be a Conrail crew relieving them." Damn if they didn't ask to keep going after they went 'outlaw', the train dispatcher said: "You'll hold the siding until the jitney comes for you." I knew we were done also, I called the train dispatcher and reminded him we would be going outlaw within two hours also: "Call one, call two, " I said.
I love the sound of the FM opposed piston diesel engine. Years ago the New Haven RR had some FM H16-44 diesels. They had the trainmaster styling and were equipped with Hancock chime whistles .To me the sound of the FM engine is like an EMD on steroids.
The old Detroit&Mackinac had 4 like this--- they were ex- PRR units, that were rebuilt at Hornell. The paint scheme that was put on them was absolutely gorgeous! They served, and then became LSRC, same numbers--1280,181,281,381-D&M numbered their locos as date acquired. Sadly they are all gone, as LSRC phased out the Alcos, for EMD's. Nobody wanted them at the end. Sad endings for neat locos.
Nothing like the old railroad muscle! These old engines had character unlike the ugly engines of today! Unfortunately just like cars and trucks they are all beginning to look alike and not for the good either! I love the old high hoods and the F units and especially the old U boats! My all time favorite locomotive is the U28s the B or C they were old school muscle for sure!
It does sound good!
F I R S T
This took me a while to find on google
Love this era of Amtrak!
I love to see action like this. Thanks for posting something old.
Thanks.. Everything I recorded is old.. I stopped recording 20 years ago when I was in my 60s... LOL
I love this locomotive. Reminds me of taking train from grand central years ago.
0:35, waaaaaaaa, it’s 1016. Sold and cut up for scrap in April 2014 and by the evening of 04/22/2014, 1016 was gone, cab, trucks and everything, now she’s just a memory. Gone forever.
Sad to see that a once important yard and shops, were left to decline, and ended up in this condition. I don't think it suffering anymore. It's all gone now.
That is the closest timed dutch drop I've ever seen. lol
Does NYSW still own/use this loco??
2012 formerly B&O 3800 went to the North Shore RR sometime around 2010-2014
@@jaywinn481Thanks for the reply! Question-- if you know the answer--- what is/was the largest loco that could work through the clearances in the brewery. Seems VERY tight with a GP38,or 40. ??
@@user-mr3ct1dm9p I don't know for sure but I believe that they used the Alco C430 #3000 a few times.. Check out Railroading Rambler as he probably has video..
Nice catch thanks for sharing realy appreciate it did some street running on nygl years back
Maybe the conductor called for Cooperstown on account of a bad order car, "Turned out to be 19", a pertinent issue for sure, would make sense.
I remember seeing a Turboliner once in the late 90s. I thought it was this very futuristic train. Had no idea it was almost obsolete and built 20 years before I was born.
Always loved the C430's, as they seemed to look sleeker, more powerful. When NYSW had them painted in the yellow and black, AND with the silver trucks, they had to be in the top 3 of beautiful diesel locos ever on rails . The HI-AD trucks looked pretty neat, also. Only 4 are still active now, on WNY&P if I remember correct. ALSO--, a GBW unit is preserved at the National RR Museum in Green Bay. All the rest of the 16 built, are gone.
What is with the 5049, which is a GE product, riding on EMD FLEXICOIL trucks??
That is not a flexicoil but a standard FB-2 truck commonly used on the GE's. Cast by either Adirondack or Rockwell.
Almost all of the MBB cars have proper 2x2 seating and MBB #517 and one other got 2x3 seats from a Bombardier in around 2009. They do fit. The Bombardier 600s and 1600s (including the 300s) all have 2x3 seating. Note: MBBs are using Coaches’ 750-781 and 900-932 same 2x2 style seats but in purple, the MBB have them in probably MassDOT blue. The 91’ era Kawasaki cab cars/coaches all have a three-plus-two seating configuration. The MBBs also have much bigger windows than those found on the other single-level cars.
Awesome! No bells or horns... just engine noise. Nice description too. Thanks a lot!
The k cars seen in this video (700s and 1700s) are now 33 years old.😱 Railfans who are older remember when they were brand-new back in 1991.
Those locomotives along with the Alco Century units, which were already mostly phased out in 1990 were by far the best pulling unit, not the best riding, but they'd pull forever without stalling. Yes, I was partial to Alco's and GE's. Nice video. I must of missed that video previously. Thanks Jim
5:40, Rest In Piece 1500!!! 😭
0:48, Rest In Piece 1518!!! 😢
5:35, what the heck was 1635 doing in the middle of the train set.
5:48, back when 1616 was allowed to lead a train, now it and Nos. 1600-1615, 1617-1624 have their cab controls “Deactivated” and are used exclusively as blind coaches.
What is it about the clean,rounded Iines of the RS3, and most of Alcos locos, that are so eye pleasing?? Thanks for recording this-- these locos look great, as compared to the modern designs.
30 years later, and how much of these neat scenes are still there? D&H is gone, sadly, Guilford is gone-- thank God, and all those neat colorful locos are gone. NYSW has gotten smaller, and lost those neat Alco branch lines. Yes, once upon a time,we had it good, as railfans. Now, it's all gone.
I assume this is 1998. I don’t remember engines having ditch lights earlier
Nice video Sir. New subscriber to your channel.
My wife and I were just in Onionta visiting our son in college. Driving around we ended up at Fonda and Roundhouse rd. Saw the sign about the D&H roundhouse that once stood there, the largest ever built. Its amazing some of the history you find out about the towns in upstate NY.
Those F units are so amazing !!!
Remember sitting in the Oneonta yard waiting for my father to get off when we only had one car. Sleeping in a station wagon when my father worked the extra board on school nights. Memories I will always have. Any relation to Marty, Ronnie and Maryann?
Wow don’t know they put steam boat whistles on their 2-8-0s as well. There is a much high pitched D&H chime whistle I prefer that 2102 (302) carried along with one of these steam boat 3 chimes. This sounds a lot like 2716 with Bill Purdies IC whistle when she was in Southern Livery
Outstanding
We got one in town at the railway museum so cool!!
Do you know where i can find a detailed map of the area rails? Old and newer?
Schuyler Street looks much nicer with all the trees. Where exactly were they going? You can hear someone locking up their brakes at the crossing on Genesee.
Pics, and video from a much better time. R.I.P. WALTER.
Love seeing the PSNH Bow coal trains in these videos
Those old F units are glorious !!!
The Good Old Days before the disgusting graffiti started.
WOW!!! 34 years have past, on what was a colorful,intersting,ALCO inclusive shortline. This track may still be in service, but the C430's are gone now. What a time it was,to see this! Rest in peace Walter Rich--- some of us have not forgotten you,and thanks!
3000 is a survivor she still exists working for the WNYP
@@jaywinn481 Yes--- don't they have all four, that are left??
They have 3000 operating and and 3006 condition unknown... 3002,3004 and 3008 were scrapped and cut up by the NYS&W
@@jaywinn481 Yes, I am aware that there were only 2 that survived from the 5, from NYSW, but don't they also have the 2 from MORRISTOWN&ERIE, as those were the only ones left. ??
Yep you are correct..@@user-mr3ct1dm9p